3.3 Networks

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Social and Ethical Issues

• Vulnerability of networks and intrusions
• Encryption and SSL
• Ability to implement difference levels of access
• Implications of network failure, for example, banks, transportation, hospitals, schools
• Implications of collaboration, groupware and data sharing
• Threat of compromising data integrity in shared databases
• Additional threats to privacy on a networkompared with stand-alone computers
• The need to authenticate information
• Intellectual property protection on networks, for example site licences, file access
• Equality of access for different groups and individuals
• Ability to monitor users (surveillance); concerns of people regarding monitoring
• Ability to filter incoming data
• Ability to control personal, business, military, government operations over a wide geographical area
• Increased globalization, for example, EFT, EDI, e-commerce
• Need for interface standards
• Need for network use policy

Social and Ethical Issues

• Types of intrusion; viruses
• Types of intrusion; hacking
• Types of intrusion, phreaking
• Security measures
• Network types, for example, Intranet, Internet, VNP
• E-commerce